The Piazza della Signoria has been the hub of political atmosphere in Florence since the fourteenth century. It was the location of extraordinary victories, for example, the arrival of the Medici in 1530 just as the Bonfire of the Vanities impelled by Savonarola, who was then himself consumed at the stake here in 1498 after he was upbraided by the Inquisition as a blasphemer. A marble hover engraving on the piazza shows the area where he was scorched. The David (the first is in the Galleria dell'Accademia) by Michelangelo was set external the Palazzo Vecchio as an image of the Republic's resistance of the oppressive Medici.